Crying Girl

Crying Girl is the name of two different works by Roy Lichtenstein: a 1963 offset lithograph on lightweight, off-white wove paper and a 1964 porcelain enamel on steel.

These works served as prelude to 1964 paintings of innocent "girls next door" in a variety of tenuous emotional states.

[9] Artist Chuck Close claimed to have purchased the lithograph from Leo Castelli on a visit to New York in 1963 for $10 ($100 in 2023 dollars[10]).

"[11] (Lichtenstein's first solo show at The Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City, which sold out before opening, ran from February 10 through March 3, 1962.

", drawn by Werner Roth and John Romita Sr.[17][18] The 1964 enamel has been held at the Milwaukee Art Museum since 1965, and is considered to be one of Roy Lichtenstein's earliest attempts at producing enamel-on-steel works from the same type of comic book imagery he had begun producing as conventional hand-painted canvases.